Objectives

1. Summarize the author’s travel experiences in Morocco and Kenya and appreciate the beauty of nature in Africa;

2. Identify the structure of the travel journal and appreciate the uniqueness in some words(具体哪些单词) and sentences（强调句式）;

3. Analyze the reason why the author describes many harmonious scenes in the journals.

4. Design a slogan to call for people to protect local environment when travelling

Teaching Procedures

1. Lead-in

How much do you know about Africa？

Show pictures about Sahara, campfire in deserts; African wildlife; mount Kilimanjoaro

2. Comprehension

1）Summarize the author’s travel experiences in Morocco and Kenya

The definition of adventure: an unusual, exciting or dangerous experience, journey or series of events

Adventure in Morocco

Unusual

Exciting

dangerous

Adventure in Kenya

Unusual

Exciting

Dangerous

3.  Appreciation

1) The structure of the travel journal

2) appreciate the uniqueness in some words and sentences;

Q1: Why did the author use “smile weakly” to describe his father in line 30? What effects does it bring?

Q2: What sentence pattern is used in “I realized it was my banana that he was eating” in the last paragraph? Why is the word “my” italicized(斜体)? And what effects do these bring?

3) Analyze the reason why the author describes many harmonious scenes in the journals.

Step 1: Try to find scenes that show “harmony” between landscapes, humans, animals and plants.

(give an typical example: the author and the camel )

Step 2: Why the author describes so many harmonious scenes in the journals? (Nature is beautiful, and human beings should live in harmony with nature.)

4.  Making a slogan

Design a slogan that expresses human being should live in harmony with nature for local government.

Show pictures about human beings destroy ecology in some places when travelling.

Call for students to design a slogan for the local government.